The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1887-11-03
HOW TO WARM HOUSES.
DIRECT RADIATION VERSUS STOVES
FURNACES AND PIPES.
The Artificial Climate In Our Houees.
Destructive Effect Upon Health-Radia-
tion from Open Ffrcs-Hot Iron Sur
faces-Thc Only Remedy.


tion from Open F1rcs-uot Iron Sur
faces-Thc Only Remedy.
We make an artificial climate in our
houses. We live indoors in an atmosphere
heated Try stoves, furnaces or steam pipes, to
20 or 50 degs and we pass from our parlor
or hall into the open air. At @ step, literally
in breath, the temperature Of the air has,
for US, dropped so to 70 degs. Wo may put
on an extra coat or shawl and shield tho out
side Of the body and chest, but we cannot
Shield Golicate Innings and membranes of the
cir passages, the bronchial tubes and lung
cells. Naked, they receive the full force of
the ch2ngc-:hc last breath at 20 dogs, the
next at freezing ca zcro-and al urpreDared
We have been sitting, perhaps for hours, in
tropical atmosphere; nay, worse, in an at
rosphere deprived by hot iron furnaces of it's
ozone and natural refreshing and bracing
qualities. Our lsngs are all relaxed, de-
billtated, unstrua2; s1d in this condition the
cold air strikes them perhaps GO legs. below
what they arc graduated to and prepared
for. Is il strange that pneumonia and bron-
chitis are at hand?
If we were in tho West Indies, or even in
Florida, and wish to come north in winter,
we try to make tce change gradual. But in
our houses we keep up a tropical climate, or
worse, for the air is not fresh, and we step
! into an air as nueh colder as 70 dess of lati-
| tude will make it. It is in effect going from,
| Cuba to 1celaad-or at least to New York
ct q step, and we aake the journey perhaps
q doz2K times a day. And often, while we
are still shut up in our donicilary Cuban
| climate, Iceland comes down upon Us from
! an open wiadow to replace air that has had
Is natural refreshing G.aiisias quite cooked
/ r1,+ Of k1y LA{ g.
pipes. Aud eli thess Sudden changes and
shocks of cold serss zsen Us while the whole
system hos its vitality and powers Of resist
ance Gauged down to the lew necessities of q
tropical climate.
The effect upon health is destructive Pneu-
monia has increased nearly thrsefeld in New
York, in proportion to populatisn, within
the lsss Hfty years Breaes,ss hss increased
even mere rapidly, and Hov &suses 1,5OO
deaths i'll that city every year, icing en- in
crease Of nearly livefold to the population III
fifty years. What is the eauses We have a
sufficient and very obvious cause in the fact
that in our methods of heating our houses We
have been progressing Backward" Fifty
years ago there were ic': furnaces or Close
stoves, and 70 steam PIPES for warming;
houses were warmed by open fires. The
difference is radical and O. great Importance.
IL LitsJ Dc t4 .e!ty Ciu3: 16aCl3nL
heat from the sun CT from an open fre passes
through the air $50 far IS it is pure air with
out warming it-that is to say, without being
obstracted or retained by it Gust AZ light
does, and only warns the pavement, floors,
walls or other Opaque body on which it falls
Hence on sunny day the pavement will bc
100 dogs, while the air above it IS only SO
degs The air that touches the iron bars or
surface ot tie E-e ii IN open crate goes to
feed the Ere, and then is drawn up the chin
ncy. Only pure, radiant heat iG thrown into
the room, not hot air, and it does not heat
the cir at all directly, but warns our bodies,
walls, furniture, etc, and the air is heated
from them. Whom stove, furnace, steam
pipes and hot water pipes aro used the air is
heated directly and in turn warns the OBJ
jeCtS with which it comes in contact, the pro-
cess being exactly the reverse Of the other
By- radiation from open fires tho air is the
coolest thing ii the room; by the air heating
method it il the hottest. By open fires the
lungs get las2 heat than any other part of us,
and SO are bracod and strengthened; by the
hot air process they get more heat shsa any
other part, because the hottest air rises up
pernost about the head, and SO is inhaled
making tie lungs tender and sensitive to cold
on our going out
We want to warm our bodies not the air
Cool air is denser, contains more oxygen and
warns the blood more than hot air, besides
refreshing and strengthening sks lungs and
brecing them against in jury en- going out
| We want air with the normal amount OF
ozcEe. We get il al destroyed by the hot
iron surfaces.
The only remedy for all these mischievous
conditions and effects is entirely to abandon
the plan of applying the heat to ths eir-oi
making the air the carrier of the heat. Heat
wants no carrier any moro than light. Put
your fire in proper position; take away the
iron and brick castings that inclose it and OBJ
struct its natural movements, and, Qucke,
than you can think, the heat will be flashed
all over your room; darting out in straight
lines in every direction from the surface Of
tho fre-doEn, up and horizontally; and Thu
without expense for pipes and hot cir ducts
II one crate is not enough put another on ths
opposite side of the room. Goals are cheaper
than collins.
An almost perfect arrangement for warm
ing a room would be open fire. and the en-
tire surface of the walls and ceiling for1net
of q rejecting material Tho least possible
fire would warm u.s. because the heat woult
be kept alive, active, radiant being refectet
constantly from side to side, and up to cell
ing and back as quick as lightning flashes
and so, iInpinging on the body on all sides
would give it lively, glowing warmth
while the air might be ct almost any lowe
r temperature 1t would be Like having fiT,
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